Legacy Systems Contracts in London

Legacy System
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legacy Systems in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Legacy Systems over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 279 310
Rank change year-on-year -13 +31 -60
Contract jobs citing Legacy Systems 98 229 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.88% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.69% 2.46% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 168 253
10th Percentile £413 £425 £433
25th Percentile £500 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.62% +8.25%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £788 £862
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +7.32%

All Generic Skills
London

Legacy Systems is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,810 9,304 14,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.28% 35.96% 36.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,111 6,700 10,269
10th Percentile £313 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 115 200
10th Percentile £15.48 £19.16 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.41 £22.08 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.15
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -20.72% +29.13%
75th Percentile £49.13 £64.75 £54.59
90th Percentile £69.50 £84.50 £69.91
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +52.15% -16.72% +2.99%

Legacy Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Legacy Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Legacy Systems in London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in London.

Daily rate trend for Legacy Systems in London

Legacy Systems
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Legacy Systems in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Legacy Systems in London

Legacy Systems
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Legacy Systems in London.

Hourly rate trend for Legacy Systems in London

Legacy Systems
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legacy Systems within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +29 13 £438 -32.69% 7
East London - 3 £350 - 3
West London +12 1 - -
Legacy Systems
England

Legacy Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.18%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.02%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.71%) Azure
2 25 (25.51%) AWS
3 20 (20.41%) Serverless
4 16 (16.33%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (10.20%) Azure Functions
6 9 (9.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (9.18%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (9.18%) Azure Storage
6 9 (9.18%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (6.12%) Amazon S3
7 6 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (6.12%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (5.10%) GCP
8 5 (5.10%) GitHub
9 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.18%) Azure SQL Database
1 9 (9.18%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.16%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.10%) DynamoDB
4 5 (5.10%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.04%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.04%) Metadata
6 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.04%) Power BI
7 1 (1.02%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.02%) KDB
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.02%) OLAP Cube
7 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.12%) CircleCI
2 2 (2.04%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.04%) JIRA
2 2 (2.04%) Selenium
3 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.02%) Git
3 1 (1.02%) GitLab
3 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 23 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.45%) Finance
3 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.14%) Banking
3 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.08%) Legal
5 3 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.04%) Retail
7 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.02%) Front Office
7 1 (1.02%) Local Government
7 1 (1.02%) Marketing
7 1 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (20.41%) Developer
2 17 (17.35%) Architect
3 13 (13.27%) Senior
4 11 (11.22%) Software Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) Lead
6 9 (9.18%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (8.16%) Full Stack Developer
8 7 (7.14%) Analyst
8 7 (7.14%) Data Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Project Manager
10 5 (5.10%) Consultant
10 5 (5.10%) Data Architect
10 5 (5.10%) Migration Specialist
10 5 (5.10%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 3 (3.06%) Azure Data Engineer
12 3 (3.06%) React Developer
12 3 (3.06%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.37%) .NET
2 13 (13.27%) .NET Core
3 11 (11.22%) Blazor
4 8 (8.16%) HTML
5 7 (7.14%) React
6 5 (5.10%) Node.js
6 5 (5.10%) RESTful
7 4 (4.08%) Kafka
7 4 (4.08%) WPF
8 3 (3.06%) CSS
8 3 (3.06%) REST
8 3 (3.06%) Spring
9 2 (2.04%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.04%) XML
10 1 (1.02%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET
10 1 (1.02%) BAPI
10 1 (1.02%) JSON
10 1 (1.02%) Middleware
10 1 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.08%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.06%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.04%) FMCG
4 2 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.04%) Solar Panel
5 1 (1.02%) AS400
5 1 (1.02%) BYOD
5 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.02%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.02%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.02%) Tandem
5 1 (1.02%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.33%) Windows
2 2 (2.04%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.02%) Linux
3 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (38.78%) Migration
2 28 (28.57%) Agile
3 23 (23.47%) CI/CD
4 22 (22.45%) Data Migration
5 21 (21.43%) Full Stack Development
6 20 (20.41%) Software Engineering
7 19 (19.39%) Microservices
8 18 (18.37%) ETL
9 13 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (13.27%) DevOps
10 12 (12.24%) Data Development
10 12 (12.24%) Front End Development
10 12 (12.24%) Multithreading
10 12 (12.24%) SDLC
11 10 (10.20%) Data Modelling
11 10 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (7.14%) Project Management
13 6 (6.12%) Data Management
13 6 (6.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 40 (40.82%) SQL
2 26 (26.53%) JavaScript
3 20 (20.41%) Python
4 11 (11.22%) C++
4 11 (11.22%) Java
4 11 (11.22%) PL/SQL
5 10 (10.20%) T-SQL
6 9 (9.18%) C#
6 9 (9.18%) Go
7 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.02%) ABAP
8 1 (1.02%) Bash
8 1 (1.02%) C
8 1 (1.02%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.02%) Perl
8 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 7 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.08%) Degree
3 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.06%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.06%) GDPR
2 2 (2.04%) QA
2 2 (2.04%) SLA
3 1 (1.02%) EMIR
3 1 (1.02%) FATCA
3 1 (1.02%) MiFID
3 1 (1.02%) PMO
3 1 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.08%) Docker
3 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.02%) VMware Server
3 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (17.35%) Oracle
2 13 (13.27%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.18%) MuleSoft
4 6 (6.12%) Salesforce
5 5 (5.10%) Databricks
5 5 (5.10%) SAP
6 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.04%) Snow
7 1 (1.02%) Dell
7 1 (1.02%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.02%) Kronos
7 1 (1.02%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.02%) Pega
7 1 (1.02%) Sybase
7 1 (1.02%) VMware